Fritzburg, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49045. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle.

Fritzburg within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1927 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1931 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fritzburg between 2003 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
15 June 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WAYNE TOWNSHIP FD 2018052 - 2018
30 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VAN BUREN 0005
30 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VAN BUREN 0007
30 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VAN BUREN 0006
30 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VAN BUREN 0001
30 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VAN BUREN 0003
30 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VAN BUREN 0004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Decatur	4.1 miles	12
Keeler	6.4 miles	10
Lawrence	6.4 miles	10
Wildeys	7.0 miles	12
Teapot Dome	7.2 miles	12
Woodland Beach	8.2 miles	10
Hartford	8.4 miles	10
Sister Lakes	8.9 miles	10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122538855

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626511. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.